He, along with two others, was killed in a horrible car accident while studying abroad in New Zealand. It’s heartbreaking and I can’t even imagine how those who were close to them are feeling right now.
I can’t stop thinking about everyone who was affected by the tragedy that happened in New Zealand today. To hear from so many different people about how they were connected to those students that passed makes my heart ache.
Austin, I had only spoken with you a few times, but I know how much some of my friends loved you. I’ll always have a distinct memory of you in my thoughts and you weren’t even there to witness it. I was sitting a table with a bunch of friends and about three or four of my friends in ENG were talking about how they had found the guy that they all wanted to be friends with. He was friendly, smart, approachable and handsome. I have to admit, I was a bit thrown off because my guy friends don’t normally classify other guys as “handsome”. They couldn’t stop talking about how great this guy was and as it turns out, it was you. By the end of the year, they would even ask themselves, “What Would Austin Do?”, whenever they were presented with a problem.
To the other two students, Roch and Daniela, I can already see the outpouring of love and admiration that has spread like wildfire. And to the other students who were injured, I will never stop thinking about all of you until we hear that you are all okay.
It’s times like these where you question why things happen the way they do, but because we do not have the power to change what has happened, all we can do is support one another.
technicolor baking magic!
[source: food network magazine, via clarajudgypants:kyerabianca:annaandblue]
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Park Benches - Love is Everywhere [Couple flirting on a fire escape], 1946, by Stanley Kubrick. More can be seen at the Museum of the City of New York. He took an astonishing number of perfect photographs.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m35mhxUzk91qz6ivco1_1280.jpg)
Park Benches - Love is Everywhere [Couple flirting on a fire escape], 1946, by Stanley Kubrick. More can be seen at the Museum of the City of New York. He took an astonishing number of perfect photographs.
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(via slightlysometimesalways)
For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about.
And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago.
(via ksbuck)
“A three second exposure meant that subjects had to stand very still to avoid being blurred, and holding a smile for that period was tricky. As a result, we have a tendency to see our Victorian ancestors as even more formal and stern than they might have been.”
This is so beautiful to me.
(via courtneypritt)
I found this man on 7th Avenue in Park Slope. He was leaning heavily on his cane, looking down, wearing a grimaced face. I felt bad for him, so I smiled and waved when I walked past. His face changed completely. He lit up, smiled wide, and gave me a cheery greeting. There was nothing forced about it. He seemed like a man who went through life looking for the smallest excuses to be happy.
I walked 50 feet down the sidewalk, turned around, and walked back to him. “I want to take your photo,” I told him, “because of how big you smiled when I walked by.”
He said: “Well I saw someone smiling at me who I didn’t even know. So I thought: ‘By God! I Better do something!’”We have so much to learn from old gramps here.
